Tag Archives: Toyota

Bloody hell, that was quick! Only four casting releases for Jan and Feb 2018, revisiting templates already produced and creating variants. I am interested in the Police Crown estate but would prefer to see it stock as opposed to in Police livery. The stock estate is fine, but I see no huge variation from the…

Vellfire – sounds like some manner of military grade weaponry to me. But Japanese car makers have a habit of making names for their people carriers that sound outrageous. I have to admit, I am a huge fan of JDM people carriers and I cannot get enough of them. Voxy, Noah, Elgrand – all of…

So we are getting to see the final few models that are going to make up the TLV Neo range for 2017. October sees the some very familiar castings in a different guise. The Cresta is a well worn path as is now the R35 GT-R casting, and the CR-X takes on the Ballade version.…

Very JDM is this one. I don’t think you will see the Town Ace outside of Japan or APAC markets. The latest S400 series of LiteAce and TownAce van (S402M/S412M) and truck (S402U/S412U) was released to the market in Japan in February 2008. Now a badge engineered model, the S400 series derives from the Daihatsu…

The only thing wrong with the real GT86 are the standard wheels. They look a little pony. You can get a set of OZ’s on which make the car look a lot better: For the purposes of this casting, the race wheels do a good job. For a standard Tomica, this does very well –…

There is something just delightful about Japanese people carriers taking the original brief from the likes of the Town Ace and growing the concept. The Voxy is no exception and highlights the rigid style that Toyota go for in this class of vehicle. A good model – I really appreciate the way that Tomica just…

I know that there is some utter shite that Mattel produce as generic designs and some would say that this casting belongs to them. Well, you could be right……..but lets look at something. Yes, it has a silly Hamburger on the back. And you can’t really play with it – I mean do you want…

Can’t go wrong with a JDM Police car and the current one is the Toyota Crown to which in all intents and purposes is the Lexus LS. TBH, I would prefer to drive a Toyota Crown as opposed to a Lexus – below is a good enough reason: OK, ignore Partridge, this is a lovely…

Well, this month I have not bought anything from Japan Booster as part of the ever growing JDM 1/64 collection.TBH, the selection for March was not that great, so no need to spend money when I don’t really have it to spend. However, this little lot came through the post from my travels to Oz…